Of all human passions, ethical passion is the only worthy and true passion.
“It’s worth reminding ourselves from time to time that gyrations in a stock price may tell us absolutely nothing about the prospects of the company involved.”
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
—Socrates
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
—Mark Twain
“You consider sin a mere trifle, scarcely worth thinking about;
but God regards it as an evil and an accursed thing.”
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde
If you have time to think first before you speak, consider: is what you want to say worth it? Is it necessary? Could it hurt someone? And most of the time, if you think, you won’t speak.
—Leo Tolstoy
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
—Nikolai Gogol
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. – C.S. Lewis
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
—Thomas Edison
For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
—Carl Jung
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
—Henry David Thoreau
The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth
—Jean-Paul Sartre
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
—Michelangelo
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
—Charles Darwin
The things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding.
—J. Gresham Machen
I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
—Immanuel Kant
The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.
—Immanuel Kant
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
—Nikolai Gogol
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
—Charles Dickens
The unexamined life is not worth living.
—Socrates
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
—Immanuel Kant
Is it misery to love God? To give Him my heart who alone is worthy of it? Nay, it is the truest happiness; indeed, the only true happiness which is to be found under the sun.
—John Wesley